The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1887-07-01
DAKOTA TERRITORIAL NEWS

At Mitchell, four prisoners escaped
from Jail by saving the bars Of thei,
cell and OF an outside window.
Dakota pensions: j. IL. Farley, Rap |
id City; increased, p Boyden, Brook |
ings; Il. j. Mills, Sioux Falls.
The Omaha announces the compile
tion of the Sioux Falls line from
Salem to Mitchell. and that it is open |
for passenger traffic. All trains now
running between Worthington and |
Sioux Falls will be continued, and in
addition q new train will leave Mitch
ell at I30 p. M. for st. Paul, and
returning arrive at Mitchell at S:1O
a. III.
Judge Mcconnell, ut Fargo, decides
that assessors returns cannot be re
duced by county commissioners.
The regents at Grand Forks recelv.
ed bid from u reponsible party to
put the university OF North Dakota
in MS good-snr.r as irwas before tho
st orm for s4,6ooex-
The organization OF the Southwest
/ ern Telegraph company was perfected
ut iankton Eastern capitalists are
heavily interested. The intention OF
the company is to cover Omaha as its
| southern connection with lines eX-
tending through southern and central
Dakota and western Iowa with lines
to Minneapolis,St. Paul and Duluth.
The board OF members and direc-
tors OF Southern Dakota university,
now i'll session there, have elected the
following directors: Hon. A. j. Edger.
ton. Mitchell. chairman; L. B. Bracy,
Mitchell; Rev. A. w. Atkinson, Hur-
on; L, S. Ormsby, Emmetsburs Rev.
William Fielder, Huron; Rev. II. d.
Haveller, Watertown; Rev. o. II.
Sprout, Alexandria; Rev. l.. Brad
ford, Rev. c. B. Clark, Mitch
ell. The new board on organi-
zation stands with A. j. Edgerton as
president, Rev. G. B. Clark secretary,
and II. N. Kratz treasurer.
George Gibbon, alaborer, was struck
by lightning and killed near Faulkton.
Father o. Zardetti, professor ofdog-
matte theology at st. Francis semi
nary, Wisconsin has been appointed
vicar general OF Dakota, under Bish-
op Martin Marty, with headquarters
at Iankton.
A farmer named Hanson, living near
Frankfort, was struck by lightning
and killed.
/ Minotis ohave n "gloriousf fourth"
with 800 Indians to participate,
In attempting to leap from box
car to the tender, A. n PARCEL, a
Northern Pacific brakeman, aged
twenty-five, fell to the track and was
run over near Spiritwood and killed.
The train reached Jamestown before
he wS. pissed.
| Another heavy rainfall descended on
Dakota on the goth, extending from
Salem on the southeast to Ludden on
the north above Columbia, and from
Pierre on the west to Brookings on
the east,
Dakota continues to grow with
great rapidity. 1t has number OF
excellent colleges and q good school
system employing more than 5000
teachers. This is double the number
Of teachers in New Hampshire and
New Jersey, and half MS many us are
employed in Massachusetts,. Thirteen
states in the Union maintain fewer
schools than Dakota. In the num-
Der OF its banks Dakota leads twenty
five states OF the Union, and in many
other ways shows that it is destined
to become one OF the greatest states
OF the Union.
At Ipswich, the Mortgage, Bank and
Investment company has been incor-
porated with S5oo,Ooo capital. The
stock is being taken by eastern capi.
talists.
The depot OF the Chicago & North
western Railway company at Pierre,
caught fire and. with two car loads OF
freight, burned. Part OF Youmans
Bros & Hodgins' lumber yard was
also destroyed.
Rediield was selected as the place OF
the next meeting OF the Dakota Medi-
cal Society which will be held the
third Thursday OF June, 1888. Drs.
Moody, Van Velson and Buchanan
were appointed censors for the year.
Bids for the location OF the next
Southern Dakota fair were received
from Yankton. Huron and Sioux Falls
OF So, 600 each. Huron secured the
location by votes of herself, Pierre,
De smet, Miller, Sioux Falls, e1, while
iankton received, besides her own
votes, those of Mitchell. Aberdeen,
Parker, Scotland, Kimball and Cham
berlain,
Hon. Alex Griggs. Abe Boynton and
N. c. Smith, Dakota railroad COM
missioners, have located station on
the Milwaukee road between Andover
and Langford, where farmers com
planned the distance was too far be.
tween stations.
The Dakota Medical association eli.
elected DR.. d. f. Etter OF Yankton pres.
ident and DIR. H. Z. McNutt of Aber-
deem secretary. Papers were read by
, DIR. Morgan.
There is considerable excitement at
) Aberdeen over the attempted burning
OF the sherman house, the largest no
tel in the city.
Another strong effort will be made
to secure the opening OF the Sioux reg.
apyation by thenext congress. Alarge
meeting was held In Pierre and a plan
OF action adopted that will most Ger.
tainly be felt in Washington when con
gless convenes.
1t ia announced at Fargo, that the
Catholic see OF Dakotais to be divided
, and n vicar general appointed for the
territory, with bishop for North
J Dakota.
Hon. George A, Cory, of Cory, Wal
, rath county, lately appointed by
Gov. Church commissioner for Dako-
ia to the American expositlonin Lon.
don, has left Aberdeen for Europe.
The grand lodge OF the Knights OF
/ Pythias in session at Watertown, ad.
], iourned to meet Mt Wahnt,ton fho